hunh. Wikipedia says
Alice Waters was the chef who cooked the shoe that film director Werner Herzog eats in the film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laga - Mar 15, 2009 5:20:56 pm PDT #3628 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
P.M. Marc - Mar 15, 2009 5:26:28 pm PDT #3629 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
She is directly critiquing the American relationship to food and how it's produced and how it's cooked and how it's consumed and the life you get from that.
Our relationship with food in this country (the offshoring of a lot of our food production, the way that prices for processed goods are kept artificially low, the dependency on short-term fix w/ cheap labor methods for growing) is toxic as hell. And not sustainable. It's a microcosm of the issues facing whole the country, really.
Cass - Mar 15, 2009 5:32:09 pm PDT #3630 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
So toxic.
It's a microcosm of the issues facing whole the country, really.
It totally is.
I can explain a LOT of what is wrong with our country (by Cass) by talking about our relationship with food.
P.M. Marc - Mar 15, 2009 5:33:24 pm PDT #3631 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Totally.
In my Utopian fantasies, we save the world with victory gardens.
lisah - Mar 15, 2009 5:34:30 pm PDT #3632 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
In my Utopian fantasies, we save the world with victory gardens.
I love this. I wish I wasn't so crappy at keeping plants alive! I'll have to be assigned to some other function. Like making awesome salads.
beth b - Mar 15, 2009 5:35:33 pm PDT #3633 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I actually like Alice Waters food philosophy. Just because it isn't practical for all , doesn't mean there isn't a lot to what she says. Our current ways of producing food is toxic. We eat things that derive from natural things, but we've twisted them so our bodies don't recognizes them as food. We've add things to food that have taken advantage of our instincts/ natural leanings that make us want/crave more.
Even a slightly more thoughtful attitude towards food could improve the health of both the people and the planet.
Laga - Mar 15, 2009 5:40:21 pm PDT #3634 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I never saw the appeal of this "Hole in the Wall" show but right now I'm watching a dance crew vs. a team of contortionists and it's pretty entertaining.
beth b - Mar 15, 2009 5:40:45 pm PDT #3635 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
ha x-post
In my Utopian fantasies, we save the world with victory gardens.
I wonder if all I has to do was worry about survival if I could grow enough food.
Ginger - Mar 15, 2009 5:48:17 pm PDT #3636 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I agree with Alice Waters' philosophy, but she didn't come off well on 60 Minutes. What she seemed clueless about was the amount of time the average person can devote to cooking.
beth b - Mar 15, 2009 5:53:52 pm PDT #3637 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I don't think she has a realistic view - ever. But she did create a successful business based on her philosophy. And she has helped a number of local business, over all. ( local farmers) And lots of people in this area have changed how they think about food.
And I don't think 60 minutes ever tries to make anyone look good.